Can You Improve Your Vision by Improving Memory

A newborn baby enters into this world with a clean slate. The baby will not have any idea about the world and its surroundings and all what it knows is nothing but the mother’s warm hug.

Though the baby open its eyes and see things, there will not be any meaning to it as it has not yet formed any memory about its surroundings.

Though the vision sends millions of bytes of information, all those will not have any meaning until the first few months.

The brain will not be in a position to decode and compare with any of the recorded information (in fact the baby’s brain is like a formatted hard disk), and hence all these information will get lost in due course of time.

However, the baby will start developing or registering memory as and when it sees or does certain things in repetition. For example, a repeated patting on the back will make the baby to sleep, or any warm object will make the baby to think it as its feeding bottle.

The baby will learn to send its intention by way of sound messages or action messages. Earlier the baby would have cried in a particular frequency and got itself fed and now the baby will try to relate its crying to get milk.

Finally the baby will start to “see” things by matching the external stimulus with that of the recorded imaginary images in the brain.

Hence, is it right to call seeing, consequently, is memory? In fact, what we do while seeing is the act of learning how to see. Your mind will register the memory as specialized codes for every object seen and for babies it is a continuous voluntary process.

Where as when you grow up the same becomes a routine involuntary act that make it impossible for you to recognize your actual act of memorizing things that are seen.

A study conducted to know the effects of such memorizing acts in children revealed that children who have lost their vision before the age of seven could not either conceptualize or visualize things described to them in all its minute details.

This was due to the absence of visual memory or the recorded visual memory was not enough to recognize what has been explained or told as descriptions of objects.

However, when the same experiment was carried out with children who have lost vision after the age of seven or more, they were able to precisely recognize the objects based on the same level of description.

This was due to the reason of presence of a fairly larger visual memory with details and enough data or database to make a match with what has been told.

Whenever some diseases hamper the visual ability then reading will become more difficult and the act of reading will start to become less frequent.

And as people get lesser and lesser exposed to words, the memorized codes for words will be forgotten or will be overwritten with most recent codes of other words.

Under such circumstances, people will have difficulty in recalling words that were not seen or used for a quite long time.

To quote few examples, if a person doesn’t get to see rare words such as “Dizzy” or “Lunar” then after an year or so the person could not just recall these words at all even if you tell the meaning of these words.

This memory loss is again different for different persons and there may not be any uniformity.

In order to keep a healthy understanding of what is read, you must keep reading and in any case if you stop reading for some time say three to four years, then your reading ability will drastically come down and your matching ability of what has been read also will take a beating.

If you happen to visit any of the rehabilitation centers you can see people assisting or helping others in their reading. In fact, it will be a painful experience for people who teach others who have stopped their reading for an year or more and the teacher has to put in lot of efforts in order to make people regain their reading habit back.

People who have not made any efforts to read at least for a year and if you give them some reading material initially they may read normally.

But when they encounter or come across any of the unfamiliar word, they stop and just keep staring at the word. They cannot proceed any further as they are not able to understand or recognize the word. This was due to the reason that they have forgotten the code or the memory part of the particular word.

There may also be instances wherein people may not be able to recognize certain words on print or paper even though they use such similar words in their regular conversation.

If you feel that you are falling under such category of people, then whenever you come across any unknown word, you can call it out in a loud voice and this may help you in recognizing the word.

Before you could continue with further reading, look at the word and try to memorize the code in your memory.

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